SFSB and Hibernate Validator -

[gersonk]

Hi,

I'm using jboss-seam-CVS.2007-09-03_13-05-07 (after fixing ) but the Hibernate Validator is not working.

I tried this:

@Name("someService")
@Stateful()
public class SomeService implements ISomeService{
 @Pattern(regex=RegEx.XYZ, message="some message")
 @In()
 private String searchIdString;
 public String getSearchIdString() { return searchIdString; }
 public void setSearchIdString(String searchIdString) {
 this.searchIdString = searchIdString;
 }
 ...
}

the page:

...
 <a4j:form ajaxSubmit="true" reRender="searchResult">
 <s:validateAll>
 <h:inputText id="id" value="#{searchIdString}">
 </h:inputText>

 ...

 </s:validateAll>
 </a4j:form>
...

What's wrong?

[pmuir]

Use

<h:inputText id="id" value="#{someService.searchIdString}" /> and get rid of the @In

[gersonk]

It worked!

Could you explain how it works?

[matt.drees]

I'd recommend reading the source code. It's pretty cool, I think. Check out ui/src/main/java/org/jboss/seam/ui/validator/ModelValidator and src/main/org/jboss/seam/core/Validators

[gersonk]

Actually I'd like to know why the code worked fine when I got rid of the '@In'.

[pmuir]

Seam needs to be able to look up a model.value to find the relevant validation annotation, @In doesn't do that.

[gersonk]

Seam needs to be able to look up a model.value to find the relevant validation annotation, @In doesn't do that.

Sorry, I didn't understand yet.
If I submit the form (call some method on SFSB), Seam could validate immediately after injecting the model....

[pmuir]

No, because the validation runs in the PROCESS VALIDATIONS JSF phase which runs before updating model values and invoking the action (needs to so you don't get invalid data on your model). If you want to understand Seam you need to understand the JSF lifecycle as well.